English Verse

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“When a Jamaican is born of a black woman and some English or Scotsman, the black mother is literally and figuratively kept out of sight as far as possible, but no one is allowed to forget that white father, however questionable the circumstances of birth.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“I write real verse in numbers, as they say.
I’m talking not free verse but blank verse now.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)